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Welcome to the Punpedia entry on vegetable puns, salad puns and related topics! 🍅🍆🌽🍄 Whether you’re looking for a name for your veggie patch, in a veg pun battle with your friend, trying to come up with some cute vegetable pickup lines, or just want to stock up on some vegetable word play for future use, I hope this entry serves you well.

As well as covering leafy vegetables (lettuce, cabbage, kale), roots, legumes and other vegetable-like foods are covered too, so you’ll see some potato puns, corn puns, onion puns, pumpkins puns, and all sorts of others based around those general topics.

Vegetable Puns List

Each item in this list describes a pun, or a set of veggie puns which can be made by applying a rule. If you know of any puns about vegetables that we’re missing, please let us know in the comments at the end of this page!

Call → Kale: As in “Above and beyond the kale of duty.” and “His authenticity was kaled into question.” and “Kale it quits.” and “Kale the shots.” and “Kale of the wild.” and “Kale to action.” and “A judgement kale.” and “That was a close kale.” and “Wake-up kale“

Gale → Kale: As in “It’s blowing a kale out here!” and “I slept well despite the howling kales outside.”

Keel → Kale: As in “Keep an even kale.” and “A yacht’s kale keeps it upright”

Solid → Salad: As in “Salad gold.” and “As salad as rock.” and “Rock salad.” and “Make sure you’ve built a salad foundation.”

Sullied → Salad: To be “sullied” is to be defiled, tainted, stained or spoiled. Example: “The politician’s good name was salad by the media after the allegations were confirmed.” This one’s is a bit of a stretch!

Salah → Salad: The term “salah” describes the act of worship (5 times a day) in the Islamic religion. Example: “Salad is recommended 5 times a day.”

Salary → Celery: As in “I didn’t take the job. The celery was too low.”

Leak → Leek: As in “The information was leeked and a huge media storm erupted.” and “I’m just going to take a leek.” and “Be careful with that shopping bag! There’s a leek in it.” and “The dam sprung a leek.”

Leg → Leek: As in “It cost me an arm and a leek.” and “Shake a leek!” and “Without a leek to stand on” and “Haha just pulling your leek :)”

Lick → Leek: As in “Leek your lips.” and “Stand up for yourself. Don’t leek his boots.” and “Leek your wounds.”

Parcel → Parsley: As in “Let’s play pass the parsley!”

Leg room → Legume: As in “I always pay a little extra for the aeroplane seats with more legume.”

Choke → Artichoke: This is a corny one: “I almost artichoked on my food when she told me.” and “She was artichoked by emotion as she gave her speech at the funeral.”

Bumpkin → Pumpkin: As in “I’m a bit of a country pumpkin, but I’m getting used to the city.”

Heard → Herb: As in “I herb it on the grape vine.” and “You herb it here first.” and “You could have herb a pin drop.”

Curb → Herb: As in “Herb your enthusiasm.” and “Drive up onto the herb.”

Plant: This can also mean “place in a fixed or specified position”, and “a place where an industrial or manufacturing process takes place”. Examples: “She planted herself squarely in front of him” and “The new automobile manufacturing plant is the biggest in the country.”

Planned → Plant: As in “I had plant to get there by 8pm” and “Do you have anything plant?”

Bland → Plant: As in “The hospital food was flavourless and plant as usual.” and “He gave a weak, plant smile.” and “It tastes a little plant. More herbs?”

Let us → Lettuce: As in “Lettuce eat!” and “Lettuce celebrate!”

Led us → Lettuce: As in “You’ve lettuce down the wrong path!” and “But it lettuce to the wrong conclusion.”

It’s/Its → Oat’s/Oats: As in “Oat’s about time!” and “Look at oats cute little face!”

Maze → Maize: As in “It’s a complicated maize to navigate.”

Mace → Maize: Another term for “pepper spray” is “mace”. It can also refer to a medieval spiked club weapon.

Amazing→ Amaizing: As in “Truely amaizing.” and “Amaizing Grace.” and “I’m amaized!” and “To my utter amaizement …” (Maize is another name for corn)

Baggage → Cabbage: This one is lovely and corny: “I’m carrying around a lot of emotional cabbage.” or “Please place personal items in the overhead cabbage compartment.”

Until → Lentil: As in “It ain’t over lentil it’s over!” and “It’s all fun and games lentil someone gets hurt.”

Care at → Carrot: As in “I don’t carrot all.”

Not re-enter → Nutrient-er: As in “You should nutrient-er the discussion after that terrible contribution.”

Beat → Beet: As in “Let’s not beet around the bush.” and “If you leave now, you’ll beet the rush.” and “Can you hear my heartbeet?” and “You deserve a beeting for that.” and “Damn, these are some fine beets you’re playing!” and “There’s always deadbeets hanging around that park at night.” and “He’s not crazy – just a little offbeet.” and “We pride ourselves in our unbeetable service.” and “I’m feeling fairly upbeet today :)” and “Diabeetes is a pun, but it’s insensitive.”

Between → Beetween: As in “Beetween you and me …” and “With your tail beetween your legs.” and “Read beetween the lines.” and “Beetween a rock and a hard place.”

Bead → Beet: As in “Tiny round beets are dangerous for children.”

Repeat → Rebeet: As in “I’m not going to rebeet myself.” and “Those who do not learn from history are doomed to rebeet it.” and “I warned him rebeetedly.”

Pizza → Beet-za: As in “I always buy my beetzas from the same beetzaria.”

Turn up → Turnip: As in “Turnip the music!” and “It’ll turnip somewhere.”

Been → Bean: As in “We’ve all bean there.” and “You know, I’ve bean thinking…” and “Bean there, done that.” and “He’s a has-bean.” and “The die has bean cast.” and “I’ve bean had.” and “She’s bean in the wars lately.”

Unbeknown(st) →Unbeanown(st): As in “Unbeanownst to me, she made some enquiries.”

Bin → Bean: As in “It was in the bargain bean – 30% off!” and “Please put your rubbish in the bean.”

Pin → Bean: This one’s a bit of a stretch. Examples: “Bean the tail on the donkey.”

Deal → Dill: As in “What’s the big dill?” and “I’m kind of a big dill around here.” (“Dill” is a herb, and is often short for dill-pickle – a cucumber that has been preserved and given the flavour of the dill herb)

Pickle: “We’re in a bit of a pickle here.”

Much room → Mushroom: “It’s only a little elevator, there isn’t mushroom in here.”

Wait → Wheat: As in “Wheat a second…” and “I am lying in wheat.”

We t* → Wheat: As in “Wheat talked about this last night.” and “Wheat took our time.”

We’d → Wheat: As in “Wheat love for you to join us!”

Please → Peas: As in “Do as you peas.” and “Pretty peas?”

Pee → Pea: As in “Brb, really need to pea.”

Peace → Peas: As in “World peas.” and “Inner peas” and “Peas of mind” and “Rest in peas.” and “War and Peas” and “Keep the peas” and “Peas be with you”

Piece → Peas: As in “Peas by peas” and “Peas of mind” and “Peas of cake” and “Real peas of work” and “Peas of pie” and “Real peas of work” and “Speak your peas” and “How long is a peas of string?”

Clothes → Cloves: As in “I’m only half-cloved” and “The emperor’s new cloves.”

Love → Clove: As in “I clove you so much!” and “Clove is in the air.”

Garret → Carrot: A “garret” is an attic, loft or roof space.

Root: As in “I’m rooting for you!” and “Money is the root of all evil.” (The term “root” is also a synonym for sexual intercourse in some countries/regions)

Rude → Root: As in “A root awakening.” and “He has no manners – very root.”

Green: This can obviously refer to the colour, but it can also refer to someone who is inexperienced or naive: “A green recruit fresh from college.”

Funnel → Fennel: “Fennel” is a herb. Example: “They were all fenneled into the same career by the specialist college.”

Final → Fennel: As in “It’s the fennel count down.” and “You have the fennel say.” and “It’s my fennel offer.”

Squash: As in “Don’t squash the poor bug!” and “We need to squash the competition.”

Roo bar → Rhubarb: In Australia a car’s “bullbar” is often called a “roo bar” (“roo” is short for “kangaroo”).

Saw → Seed: The past tense form of “see” is of course “saw”, but we can be make a silly seed pun if we “conjugate” “see” like we normally do with regular verbs: “seed”. Examples: “I came, I seed, I conquered.”

Seedy: This is a describing word for someone or something that is morally questionable, fowl, or dirty. Examples: “So many seedy people hanging around that place.”

Seed: As in “But it planted a seed of hope.” and “We got more seed capital from investors.”

Properly → Broccoli: This one’s a stretch! Example: “If you’re going to do it at all, you might as well do it broccoli.”

Leave → Leaf: As in “Absent without leaf.” and “Leaf no stone unturned” and “Leaf your options open.” and “Love them and leaf them.” and “That’s going to leaf a mark!” and “I’m leafing tomorrow morning.”

Love → Leaf: As in “I leaf you so much!” and “Leaf is in the air.”

Laugh → Leaf: As in “Leaf all the way to the bank.” and “Leaf in your face.” and “Leaf your head off.”

Leaves: As in “She leaves without a trace.”

So → Soy: This simple soy pun works best if the word after “so” begins with a “y”, but it still works without it. Examples: “Soy you think you can dance?” and “It’s soy sad.” and “There’s only soy much you can do.”

Say → Soy: As in “What did you just soy?” and “To have the final soy.” and “Needless to soy, …” and “Never soy never.”

Soil → Soyl: As in “That tofu pun was hilarious – I almost soyled my pants.” and “Fertile soyl.”

*soy*: Other words containing the “soy” sound can also be soy puns: ellipsoyd (ellipsoid), sinusoydally (sinusoidally).

So you been → Soya bean: As in “Soya bean up to much lately?”

Corn → Can: As in “Corn’t we all just get along?” and “Appearances corn be deceptive.” and “Bit off more than you corn chew.” and “Corn you believe it?” and “You corn count on me.”

Gone → Corn: As in “Here today, corn tomorrow.” and “It’s all corn pear-shaped.” and “Corn, but not forgotten.”

Pulse: This term can refer to a couple of different things. First, the pulse of your veins caused by your heart-beat, or more generally, any short burst or vibration (e.g. of sound, electricity, etc.). Second, it is a synonym of “legume” which refers to produce like chickpeas, lentils, and beans.

But any → Botany: As in “You expect me to be impressed, botany body can do that.”

Guarding → Garden: As in “A soldier was garden the entry.” and “The manager was always garden his reputation by blaming others.”

Esteemed → E-steamed: As in “Many of these qualities are e-steamed by managers.” and “Contemporary Japanese ceramics are highly e-steamed.”

Raw: As in “That was a raw deal.” (a bad deal)

Brussels: It’s the name of a region in Belgium, but is also well known as part of the phrase “Brussels sprout” which is a well known vegetable which likely originated there.

She weed→ Seaweed: As in “I just got a new pet rabbit and seaweed on my carpet.”

Produce: When the emphasis is on the “prod” part of this word, it refers to things that have been grown on a farm. You might be able to make vegetable puns with this in the right context.

Crop: As in “If you crop the photo it’ll look better.” and “The cream of the crop.” and “I always ask the hairdresser for a crop.”

Crop up: To “crop up” means to appear unexpectedly and/or suddenly, and thus could be a pun on “crop” which is a cultivated grain, fruit or vegetable.

Cartoon → Cardoon: This is thistle of the sunflower family that is often called an “Artichoke thistle”. It has edible leaves and roots. Example: “Disney has some of the most famous cardoons in the world.”

Okay→ Okra: As in “Are you feeling okra?” (Terrible! 😀 By the way, okra is a plant the has edible green pods)

Law → Slaw: As in “Slaw and order.” and “I am a slaw abiding citizen.” and “The slaw of diminishing returns.” and “The slaw of the jungle.” You could also use “slaw” to replace “it’s law” – perhaps add a preceding apostrophe like so: ‘slaw

A thousand islands: “Thousand Island” is a popular salad dressing. If you can somehow work “thousand island” into your prose, you’ve got yourself a salad pun.

Dressing: As in “Oh stop dressing it up!” and “Are you dressing up for halloween?”

Sprout: This is a general term for “to emerge and grow rapidly”, but has obvious vegetable-based connotations (and probably origins). Example: “He thought he’d sprout wings and fly.”

Iceberg: A popular type of lettuce, and also (obviously) a big chunk of ice floating in the ocean.

Fresh: This is a term that is strongly associated with vegetables and so could probably qualify as a vegetable pun if used in the right context (though it’s a bit of a stretch!). Phrases like “a fresh start” and “a fresh pair of eyes” may be useful.

Bulb: As in “Can you change that light bulb for me?”

Stalk: “The spy stalked the target for days before getting enough intel.”

Pretty good → Rad-ish: When something is “rad” it’s awesome, cool or really good. If something is “rad-ish” then it’s just pretty good (and not overly so).

Vegetable-Related Phrases

Common phrases, idioms and cliches which are related to vegetables can be used for some subtle and witty word play. Here is a list of the vegetable themed phrases that we’ve found so far:

as easy as shelling peas

as red as beetroot

carrot and stick

cauliflower ear

cool beans

cool as a cucumber

couch potato

sofa spud

dangle the carrot

(to play) hot potato

fine words butter no parsnips

full of beans

I yam what I yam

sprout wings and fly

spill the beans

know your onions

not worth a hill of beans

cultivate your garden

it ain’t rocket science

in a pickle

keep your eyes peeled

like two peas in a pod

he has a green thumb

small potatoes

separate the wheat from the chaff

take a leaf out of my book

turn over a new leaf

the cream of the crop

whatever tickles your pickle

you can’t squeeze blood out of a turnip

plant a seed of doubt

plant the seed

seed money / seed capital / seed round

the grass is always greener on the other side

Vegetable-Related Words

There are many more puns to be made than could be documented in this Punpedia entry, and so we’ve compiled a list of vegetable-related concepts for you to use when creating your own puns. If you come up with a new pun, please share it in the comments!

Vegetable Jokes

If you’re looking for some very corny vegetable jokes, you’ve come to the right place. All of these one-liner-style vegetable jokes use puns in their punchline. Some are phonetic puns, others are based on a slang phrase or cliche related to vegetables.

Why did the cucumber blush? – Because it saw the salad dressing!

What do you call an angry pea? – Grump-pea.

Why did the potatoes argue? – Because they couldn’t see eye-to-eye.

How did the farmer fix his jeans? – With a cabbage patch!

Why did the tomato get embarrassed? – Because it saw the chick pea.

Which vegetable do Sailors ban from their ships? – Leeks.

What did the lettuce say to the celery? – Quit stalking me!

What is small, red and whispers? – A hoarse raddish.

What is green and goes to summer camp? – A Brussel scout!

What do root vegetables wear to bed? – Yammies!

What do you call a retired vegetable? – A has-bean.

When is a vegetable too fresh? – When he insults the farmer.

Why do fungi have to pay double bus fares? – Because they take up too mushroom!

Why shouldn’t you tell secrets in a cornfield? – There are too many ears.

What’s a vegetable’s favourite martial art? – Carot-e!

What’s the coolest vegetable? – A rad-ish!

Why did the chef quit? – They cut his celery.

What did the sweet potato say to the pumpkin? – I yam what I yam.

What does a nosey pepper do? – Gets jalapeno business!

How do you fix a broken tomato? – Tomato paste.

Vegetable Pun Images

Below is a collection of vegetable-related visual puns and meme-type images. If you’ve created your own visual vegetable puns or found one that we’ve missed, please post us a link in the comments section 🙂

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